Because our empire is collapsing

Real ‘chicken or egg’ vibes with that one

I’d be lying if I said I don’t do that myself

I can’t think of anything more american than complaining about anti-american bias while accusing everyone else of just being jealous

Yea, they were comparing tiktok to other american-owned social media sites, which are guilty of exactly the same thing themselves.

Any site that doesn’t explicitly push anti chinese content is going to look like a pro-chinese bias

(there are several people in this thread who would not mind banning certain lemmy instances on this basis)

I wonder if op has a strong opinion about china.

Maybe, but there is clearly someone in this situation that is exploiting their position as a capital owner, and it isn’t the renters.

Neither will I belabor the point about presuming high earners to be a part of the bourgeoisie.

Class is about labor relations, not income.

At best those people are petty bourgeois, but they are still renting in this case, so still being exploited by a capitalist. By any marxist interpretation they’d still be working-class.

I think that’s pretty common.

It’s definitely a dopamine thing for me because it’s not just food. Some nights I’ll stay up late looking for a distraction that scratches that itch, even though I’m exhausted.

Sir, this is a Wendy’s

The extended release version gave me more of the side effects and less of the benefits, unfortunately

I think it’s the same dopamine-seeking behavior that’s exasperated by my poor health habits, and those have admittedly been really bad of late.

probably isnt being surveiled or protected in any meaningful way.

You should probably assume all of these properties at least have video doorbells and smart cameras

Doesn’t mean you couldn’t be brazen about it, especially if you have nothing to lose

They’re talking about a rental house, and in LA of all places

Everyone is in the same rental hellscape - you can sympathize with people being exploited even if they’re in a different tax bracket than you. Have some class consciousness, jesus

People keep complaining that AI is hallucinating information not in its source material, but here it is strictly limiting itself to the source and even citing its findings and yet everyone is still upset?

Curious

He loves exploiting China.

Lmao, i only ever see this carping from one instance and even just one user

Yea, but that kinda nails the pettyness of it, doesn’t it? They don’t even gain anything by having people adopt their software, nor do they suffer a loss by a boycott - and it’s all because they have some questionable (to put it charitably) opinions about an entirely unrelated political issue.

The thing that gets me is that launching this diatribe over the developer’s political opinions on an open sourced project that’s built specifically so that no one group or person has control over the platform - that you have complete control over the instances you federate with - ends up looking an awful lot like protesting public libraries over providing access to ‘woke’ books.

On what basis can anyone declare one instance to be the ‘main’ one? I’ve seen a number of people claim the same thing about .world, but none of them need to be considered the ‘main’ ones. The entire motivation for the creation of the fediverse is to allow segmentation… I think people simply want to make it an issue because without these little cross-community spats things get boring.

over the developers’ horrible takes

Is that really what all this protest is over? Someone’s ‘horrible takes’?